The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-30
MINOR MENTION.

PERHAPS the coolest mass of matter ever
known was made by chemical experiment at
Wooster University, Ohio, few days ago. Car
bonic acid gas was generated in a cylinder of
Bessemer steel, under pressure of 5000 pounds
to the square inch From thence 1t was allowed
to escape into condenser in the condition of
solidfed gas resembling snow fakes in appear
The temperature of this solicited gas is
168 degrees, Fahrenheit, below zero small
quantity of this gas was then gathered and
pressed into so-caled ''snow ball, on one side
of which was a small depression. The ball was
placed in red hot crucible, upon which the in
tense heat of Bunson burner was playing. A
little mercury and ether were dropped into the
depression on the "gas ball. and notwithstand
ing the intense heat, the mercury was mmed-
atey frozen. The operating professor then set
the ather on fire. but still was enabled to pick
out the frozen bulb of mercury. Freezing mer-
curry in flame and over red-hot crucible is a
pretty cold fact.
ONE of the speakers at the National Woman
Suffrage meeting divides the women who object
to the extension Of the franchise into six classes,
namely, the prejudiced, the uniformed, those
ject to, the women who shrink from every re-
sponsiblity and who live only for pleasure. the
women who fear the influence of the bad or i'm
moral women. To this might be added another
large, not to say influential, class consisting of
the women who don't want to vote simply be-
cause they don't want to. The female anti sui
fragists can arrange themselves under these va
| rious heads to suit their own pleasure.
THE new Boston magazine, American Art, has
| this to say of two Indiana artists:
s'Nliss Mattox, of Terre Haute Ind. is a wood
carver of great skill. A wooden mantel re
Gently finished by her, for private house, bears
| in relief very elaborate carving, which out
| lines the mantel, shelf supports, overmante
and plaster The design is wildrose, with
leaves and tiny buds dantiiy grouped. The ex
quiste form and perfection of detail is remark
| able. Miss Annie Stiger, of Kokomo, Ind ex
hibits wood carving of fine design and execution
| Industrial art work is developing rapidly in In
| DIANA and some very charming interior decora
tons are the result of amateur designers ant
| decorators"
| WAsHINGToN's contemporaries are fast pass
ing away. His body servants have been dyin,
quite rapidly of late years, and now one of hi
nurses is gone She died in Chicago on Tuesday
aged one hundred and five years, at least Chi
cago paper says So The surviving nurses o
Washington are not very numerous They are
of course, older than the body -servants, an,
there were not SO many Of them to begin with
Ali Of them are considerably past one hundre
years Of age now and at that time of life
must be expected the ranks will thin out prett,
fast
VAssAR authorities are anxious to have il IN
derstood that Miss Nina Van Zandt is not
graduate from that institution; that she was no
even connec,sd with the college proper but wa
merely student in the preparatory department
1t is not clear that much is to be gained for tn
school by this explanation. II the preparator